HOTEL NOT A HOSTEL!!!
It's a good hotel, good location near Seattle centre, quiet rooms etc. however, I was purposely looking for a hostel not a hotel. While my stay was fine, I feel mislead by hotel owners.

1. It's not hostel, it's a motel.
2. It's not called AAE. It's called Downtown Vale Inn. so, they are eitger lazy or lying on this werbsite. I was looking for hostel as I needed to be able to cook own food due to dietry constraints. This place was advertised as a hostel but it is a motel with no hostel facilities.
3. Getting over these nasty surprises, place is good as a motel. University location, quiet, not far from city centre
4. If advertising was HONEST from start, would like a lot

Individual cell bedrooms were novel sleeping experience. Claustrophobic folk may wish to think twice.
Only comment for consideration is hall way light gets turned off for the group tours of the historic building. This makes accessing rooms very tricky as one cannot see the combination lock.

Pool was shut. Laundry facility can't be used before 14.00. Single room I had booked had no direct access to fresh air, feeling very claustrophobic. The building is what it is, but for me, I would not choose again.

Hi Enda.
Sorry about our pool being closed. The area was being refurbished and it is now open. We also have rooms with and without windows. Rooms without windows are cheaper for this reason. Sorry about the washing too working on making it open earlier.

Thank you for your comment.
We are working very hard on our wifi connection and already solved all connection problems in the lobby where we do have the best connection so far. We are very sorry that during your stay we could not offer you the same speed you already knew from our Hotel in Munich.
We hope you had a good stay as well in our Hotel apart from the wifi connection.
We are looking forward to welcome you soon in one of our MEININGER Hotels :-)